I'm concerned whether the Mini will have loud fan noise like the Stream does. I have to hide my Stream away in a closet and run an unsightly extension power cord to it because of the fan's annoying hum frequency.

I'm concerned whether the Mini will have loud fan noise like the Stream does. I have to hide my Stream away in a closet and run an unsightly extension power cord to it because of the fan's annoying hum frequency.

Very possible the marketing people didn't want to go head to head with Roku. To Joe public there's plenty of confusion over a Tivo mini that streams programming and a Roku 3 . . . that steams programming.

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I guess that's possible, but it seems silly since they actually provide very different functionality. The Roku is designed to stream from a bunch of different internet based programming providers. The Mini's main purpose is to stream programs on your TiVo across the local network to another room in the house. With the exception of them both, potentially, providing access to Netflix, Hulu and YouTube, the is very little overlap.

The entire point of this thread was to have a place to discuss pre-order status, as it was anticipated that those pre-orders would start soon (and for reference, I am the OP and I did not state that it was launching March 6th, just that it would be launching soon).

As is usual, people just assume that any thread that is even tangentially connected is a dumping ground for them to discuss whatever the hell they please, completely off topic or otherwise.... that thread already exists, see ridiculously huge "Mini Lives" thread.

I don't usually take myself or thread topics very seriously, but some of you guys need to learn some basic forum etiquette, because you fail at internet manners.

I will go ahead and un-subscribe myself, feel free to carry on and make asses of yourselves.

I am sorry you are taking the comments so hard. I believe I am the one who said the op was the one who gave the date. I forgot which thread had that statement and accidently referenced you. I apologize for that error. I do not think anyone was attacking you or even criticizing you. I agree that until tivo actually releases the mini then any comments are ok. It was nice of you to start a thread as you like many of us believed the march 6th info. I for one am glad to read all the comments because they make me feel that I am not alone in my dissapointment in Tivos non release. Misery love company. Now if UPS would just deliver my P4......

Very possible the marketing people didn't want to go head to head with Roku. To Joe public there's plenty of confusion over a Tivo mini that streams programming and a Roku 3 . . . that steams programming.

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What marketing people? I've been on the "get info about the Mini" list for months and, as usual, haven't heard a peep from Tivo.

Tivo has absolutely NO IDEA how to market any of their products to the public and doesn't really seem to care.

Just spoke to a Best Buy regional manager. He checked area warehouses and he can't find the SKU for the Mini, so he can't tell me if there are any. He did say that usually if he can't see a SKU by release date, then Best Buy has pulled or delayed the item.

Very possible the marketing people didn't want to go head to head with Roku. To Joe public there's plenty of confusion over a Tivo mini that streams programming and a Roku 3 . . . that steams programming.

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Probably not. I've done hundreds of product launches over the years and I can't think of a single one where we considered changing the date based on a competitors launch. With venues booked, press invited, etc it is really difficult and expensive to change the date. I'd be willing to bet that in the afternoon of September 11th 2001 there were product launches that still happened.

There are dozens of reasons that things move, but rarely is it a competitors launch.